Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Texas, joins ABC News Live to discuss the flood preparations and response efforts after the devastating floods in Texas. July 11, 2025 at 12:23 AM July 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM

Officials in flood-stricken central Texas on Wednesday again deflected mounting questions about whether they could have done more to warn people ahead of devastating flash flooding that killed at least 119 people on July 4.

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the federal response to the flooding disaster in Texas,

Q: Is it true that if President Donald Trump hadn’t defunded the National Weather Service, the death toll in the Texas flooding would have been far lower or nonexistent? A: The Trump administration did not defund the NWS but did reduce the staff by 600 people.

HOUSTON — NASA has deployed two specialized aircraft to assist state and local authorities with flood recovery operations in the Texas Hill Country. The project is a collaboration between the Texas Division of Emergency Management, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and humanitarian organizations Save the Children and GiveDirectly.

LONDON, July 11 (Xinhua) -- The catastrophic flash floods that struck central Texas on July 4 have become one of the deadliest natural disasters in U.S. history, claiming more than 100 lives and leaving over 160 people missing.

Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have been affected by flooding

A study puts the spotlight on Texas as the leading U.S. state by far for flood-related deaths, with more than 1,000 of them from 1959 to 2019.